Harriet (first name)
Harriet is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Harriet is an English form of Henriette . More on the meaning can be found under Heinrich .
Name bearers
- Harriet Andersson (born 1932), Swedish actress
- Harriet Andreassen (1925–1997), Norwegian politician
- Harriet Backer (1845–1932), Norwegian painter
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher; 1811-1896), American writer and declared opponent of slavery
- Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (née Kensit; 1877–1970), South African botanist
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist
- Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian nuclear physicist
- Harriet Cains (born 1993), British actress
- Harriet B. Creighton (1909-2004), American biologist
- Harriet Dart (* 1996), British tennis player
- Harriet Frank Jr. (1923-2020), American screenwriter
- Harriet Sansom Harris (born 1955), American actress
- Harriet Heise (* 1966), German television journalist and presenter
- Harriet Herbig-Matten (* 2003), German actress
- Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), American sculptor
- Harriet Howard (1823–1865), mistress and financial patroness of Napoleon III.
- Harriet Hunt (* 1978), English chess master
- Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), African American author
- Harriet Krijgh (* 1991), Dutch cellist
- Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of US President James Buchanan and first lady of the USA
- Harriet Miers (* 1945), American lawyer
- Harriet Taylor Mill (née Hardy; 1807–1858), English suffragette and author
- Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), American pilot
- Harriet Straub (1872–1945), German doctor and writer
- Harriet Williams Russell Strong (1844–1926), American inventor, conservationist and suffragette
- Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1806–1868), British nobleman and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria
- Harriet Tubman (nee Araminta Ross; ≈1820–1913), American escape assistant for the Underground Railroad
- Harriet von Waldenfels (* 1985), German journalist and television presenter
- Harriet Walter (born 1950), British actress
- Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), English feminist, editor and author
- Harriet Wegener (1890–1980), Hamburg author, politician (FDP) and women's rights activist
Fictional people
- Harriet Smith, Emma's best friend in Emma by Jane Austen
- Harriet Vanger, foster daughter of Henrik Vanger in The Blind by Stieg Larsson